Canada at War: THE DOMINION: Tory Triumph

For Prime Minister William Lyon
Mackenzie King, it was a crushing defeat. In the by-election in Grey
North, Ontario, the Tories this week elected stout, ham-handed Garfield
Case to Parliament.

The campaign had been fought almost solely over one supercharged issue:
the Dominion Government's policy of partial military conscription. The
Liberal candidate was the man charged with making that policy work:
National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton. The voters had heard
Tory orators toss flat charges of inadequate reinforcements and
shipboard mutinies among draftees. General McNaughton had denounced
such stories as "lies," and three times Prime Minister King had...